[Zope] Search and replace

[Ender]

Daniel Rusch wrote:
> 
> I have been following this thread with mild amusement. Those of you who
> don't think that there is any need for a search and replace are being,
> at the least, disingenuous. Have you never needed to replace a dtml var
> that is on a hundred or more pages with another one, but replace it only
> on some of the pages???
> 
> The lack of a search and replace, a find that actually "finds" a string
> on a page (instead of just the page) and other standard editor features
> are the reasons why Zope is being phased out of this companies (15,000
> person worldwide company, the worlds largest web hosting and fiber optic
> network) web tool set.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I think Zope is the greatest thing since sliced
> bread. But, if Zope is to become anything other than a bastion for open
> source zealots (myself included), a real editor is a necessity not a
> nicety! Zope had the opportunity to sweep this company ( it could have
> ended up on hundreds if not thousands of servers) but the lack of a
> professional interface doomed it.
> 
> DR

Sadly this is a constraint of zope ide's being browser based (or based
on current browsers). I would eagerly like to help out with a project
that would like to see this changed.  Building such an interface with
gnome or kde would be possible, indeed there are already efforts
underway to do both. But to create a cross-platform solution really
needs... Mozilla. Sadly, the ZopeMoz projects appears to be dead,
hopefully developer interest can be generated in reviving it after
ActiveState releases the python bindings to XPCOM (which should be
soon).

kapil


> 
> 
> Lee Hunter wrote:
> >
> > Martin Winkler wrote
> > > I just wanted to express that this feature may be too hard to
> > > program for
> > > the (IMHO) rare cases that we really need it, but IF there
> >
> > I had understood that Python and Zope excelled at string manipulation.
> > That's why I am surprised that it would be difficult to scan a folder full
> > of documents to find a word and replace it with another (with the option of
> > ignoring anything in pointed brackets). I'm not a programmer so I probably
> > don't appreciate the complexities of the task, however in this case it seems
> > like the object-oriented database is a hindrance rather than a help. If it
> > was just a batch of html files I could search and replace through them with
> > just about any piece of software on my desktop.
> >
> > I wouldn't know whether this is the sort of tool that is generally useful,
> > but in my work I use search and replace all the time (if only to fix my
> > endless confusion over 'its' and 'it's')
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lee Hunter
> > Hum Communications Ltd.
> >
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